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Use of seismic refraction techniques for investigating recent landslides in a tropical rain forest in Puerto: Chapter 56
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Matthew C. Larsen
Landslide and debris-flow hazards caused by the June 27, 1995, storm in Madison County, Virginia : includes discussion of mitigation options
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Gerald F. Wieczorek, P. L. Gori, R. H. Campbell, B. A. Morgan
Experimental studies of deposition at a debris-flow flume
Geologists commonly infer the flow conditions and the physical properties of debris flows from the sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and morphologic characteristics of their deposits. However, such inferences commonly lack corroboration by direct observation because the capricious nature of debris flows makes systematic observation and measurement of natural events both difficult and dangerous. Furth
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Jon J. Major
Averting Surprises in the Pacific Northwest
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Brian F. Atwater, Thomas S. Yelin, Craig S. Weaver, James W. Hendley
Giant blocks in the South Kona landslide, Hawaii
A large field of blocky sea-floor hills, up to 10 km long and 500 m high, are gigantic slide blocks derived from the west flank of Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii. These megablocks are embedded in the toe of the South Kona landslide, which extends ∼80 km seaward from the present coastline to depths of nearly 5 km. A 10–15-km-wide belt of numerous, smaller, 1–3-km-long slide blocks separa
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J. G. Moore, W.B. Bryan, M.H. Beeson, W. R. Normark
Can magma-injection and groundwater forces cause massive landslides on Hawaiian volcanoes?
Landslides with volumes exceeding 1000 km3 have occurred on the flanks of Hawaiian volcanoes. Because the flanks typically slope seaward no more than 12 °, the mechanics of slope failure are problematic. Limit-equilibrium analyses of wedge-shaped slices of the volcano flanks show that magma injection at prospective headscarps might trigger the landslides, but only under very restrictive conditions
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R. M. Iverson
Some observations of landslides triggered by the 29 April 1991 Racha earthquake, Republic of Georgia
On 29 April 1991 an Ms 7.0 earthquake occurred in the Racha region of the Great Caucasus Mountains in north-central Republic of Georgia. The earthquake occurred on a thrust fault striking roughly east-west and dipping about 20° to 45° northward; focal depth was 17 ± 2 km. We observed no surface fault rupture, but the earthquake caused extensive structural damage to the many unreinforced stone buil
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R. W. Jibson, C. S. Prentice, B.A. Borissoff, E.A. Rogozhin, C.J. Langer
Wide-band analysis of the 3 March 1985 central Chile earthquake: Overall source process and rupture history
We apply a linear, finite-fault waveform inversion scheme to the near-source strong-motion records, the teleseismic body waves, and the long-period Rayleigh waves recorded for the 3 March 1985 Chile earthquake to recover the mainshock rupture history. The data contain periods between about 2 and 350 sec and are inverted by allowing a variable dislocation rise time at each point on the fault. The r
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Carlos Mendoza, Stephen H. Hartzell, Tony Monfret
Landslide deposits in the Grouse Creek 30' X 60' Quadrangle, Utah, Nevada, and Idaho
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Roger B. Colton
Surficial horizontal displacements on Slumgullion landslide, Hinsdale County, Colorado, 1985 to 1990 (determined by direct visual comparison)
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Marta Chiarle, P. S. Powers
Preliminary map showing quaternary faults and landslides in the Cliff Lake 15' quadrangle, Madison County, Montana
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J. M. O'Neill, T. H. LeRoy, Paul E. Carrara